I know I'm about to repeat what's been stated countless times before. I realize it's repetitive at this point, so I'll try to get to the point as quickly as I can.
For the last few years, WWE has been trying hard to push Roman Reigns as a face. Try as they may, fans have either grown to love him or they hate him with a passion. My perspective, the haters seem to out number the fans. The more I've seen Reigns, the harder it is for me to watch him.
Personally, I don't think this is Roman's fault. I don't want to take anything away from him. He busts his ass night in & night out. Unfortunately, busting your ass simply isn't always going to be good enough. Whether or not you want to talk about basketball, music, Television, the Big Screen or daily life of the average person, hard work simply isn't enough.
Some people, regardless of the industry they're in, always find ways of skating through. Some people manage to succeed because of politics. Some people can actually work hard and succeed at it. Wrestling is the same thing. There are times where busting your hump isn't enough.
For Roman, I don't have any doubts that he's working hard. You don't make it into a company like WWE if you are a lazy jerk. I suspect the problem lays elsewhere. This could probably be debated for years to come. Since I'm only looking at the problem from a fans' perspective, all I can give is a fans' perspective.
Based purely off my own vantage point, part of the problem is WWE trying to hard to make Roman the face of the company. It appears as though John Cena's time at the top has finally come to an end, for one reason or another, WWE wants Roman to be "the guy". This could be a simple case of trying too hard. How often does this happen in life where people try too hard to be well-liked by others, only ending up pissing everyone off in the process?
Happens far more then any of us could comprehend. I'd bet my bottom dollar this is one of the main problems with Roman, right now. WWE is just too desperate to make Roman so well loved by the fans, many fans have automatically rejected him. Same problem Cena had for many years. WWE tried too hard to get fans to love him.
With all the access fans have to wrestling, this sort of tactic doesn't work like it did 30-40 years ago. Back then, you could push wrestlers to the moon and get away with it because you didn't get to see them every week. If we did see certain wrestlers more often, there was only so much time on TV they could get as promoters needed to make every minute count.
There was no YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, or other forms of social media to interact with wrestlers or watch them on.
Over-saturation is another problem for Roman. Tied in with WWE's efforts to get the fans to love Roman, fans are naturally going to boo him.
Here comes the problem. Fans want to boo him, regardless of what WWE wants them to do. Typically, this would be a chance to make a heel turn. Considering the investment WWE has in making Roman the top good guy, I don't imagine that happening anytime in the foreseeable future. Yet, this would be a great chance to do it.
WWE could still push Roman as a top tier wrestler. He'd easily be the top heel, automatically. Fans would easily want to see Roman's teeth kicked in on a nightly basis. There's only a few people that fans would readily accept as top faces. Because of this, Roman would easily viewed as a top ass kicker. Anyone that would take him on would automatically be cheered like the Second Coming of Christ....in a manner of speaking.
A simple heal turn would be a wise decision, in my humble opinion. I realize that the odds of this happening are pretty slim. I realize that WWE wants Roman as their top face, regardless of what I think. I'm fine with that.
If WWE wants to keep Roman as their top face, that's their choice. I doubt I'll ever agree with their choices 100%. Then, that's the nature of the beast.
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